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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: However, the Minister could not guarantee that. The Minister and the Department built in assumptions, which are very reasonable, but he made the point to the committee that he would not bring forward a scheme unless he could cost it properly. The argument against a scheme for households is that energy prices may go through the roof. What if they went through the roof for businesses? What...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What is the outer limit?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: One multiplies by the upper limit of the cap. What is the outer-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, because energy prices did not increase. The assumptions the Department used are appropriate, but the Minister made the point that he would never introduce a scheme, because he does not know where energy prices go. If energy prices multiplied over that period, these companies would have reached the cap and, therefore, the exposure of the State would be in the tens of billions of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: However, the point I am making is that the Minister said he would not introduce a scheme where he cannot accurately cost the cost of the scheme. It is not credible, either. TBESS is a fine example of that with regard to the upper exposure of the State in scenarios that are really completely unlikely to happen, because of how energy prices are hedged in the market and so on and so forth. It...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Why can the top-up grant not be provided to those companies if they are eligible from September? Why can a top-up grant not be available for them from March on?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5: In page 8, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Report on mortgage interest relief 6.The Minister shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of mortgage interest relief on a temporary basis with respect to principal private residences to assist with rising...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: They are not new.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: To the same people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Scaremongering.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made on the European deposit insurance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence received from Tusla by an individual (details supplied) in County Donegal, if he will confirm whether the record referred to from the third paragraph in the letter has been deleted from the case notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14794/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 675. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14919/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 685. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for surgery at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 695. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at the Temple Street Hospital can be expedited for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15015/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at the Children's Hospital in Crumlin can be expedited for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15016/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 697. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at the Children's Hospital in Crumlin can be expedited for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15017/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 698. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at the Temple Street Hospital can be expedited for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (28 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 743. To ask the Minister for Health when the urgent transfer of a patient (details supplied) from Letterkenny University Hospital to the Mater Hospital will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15461/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Two of the largest supertrawlers and factory ships in the world have been hoovering up vast amounts of fish in Irish waters over the past two weeks. The 470-foot Annelies Ilenaand the 470-foot Margiriswere joined by another supertrawler, the 383-foot Helen Mary. All three vessels are owned by a Dutch corporation. The presence of these monster vessels in Irish waters is a real kick in the...